One of the biggest jaw-droppers of this year’s tech industry can be counted on Apple’s recent announcement regarding its collaboration with OpenAI during the Worldwide Developer Conference 2024. In the future iOS 18 software update, the company plans to incorporate the widely used ChatGPT into various interfaces integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the specified company’s launch event.
However, not everyone has welcomed the news; the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla company, Elon Musk, has been against integration. Musk, the OpenAI collaborator, fired back on X (formerly Twitter) that he’d forbid the using Apple tools in his business if the latter deploys OpenAI as an intrinsic component in its operating systems.
The two sources show that Musk’s worries are related to possible privacy concerns that may arise, given the partnership. Sharing his concern in a meme thread, he painted an uncomfortable situation where Apple supposedly provides some user data to OpenAI.
The meme derived from a movie named ‘Thappattam’ in the Tamil language in 2017 has gained much popularity and has brought a total of 39. Musk’s social media survey provides 7 million views and 300 thousand likes.
In response to these criticisms,, Apple clarified that the incorporation of OpenAI is not mandatory and that they are utilizing an artificial neural network developed in-house. OpenAI has also noted that privacy controls have been included in integration, explaining that the organization does not retain users’ requests and that the latter do not contain individuals’ IP addresses.
Still, Musk has his doubts and, therefore, dubbed the partnership as an ‘unacceptable security violation’. So much so, he has gone on a record threatening that if he is allowed into the Apple campus, he will bring along his team ‘armed’ -with jamming gear and ask all visitors at his company to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be placed inside a Faraday Cage.
As the tech community awakened to this partnership of two giants, the issues regarding privacy and security, to name but two, and the relevance of AI in our lives resurface with renewed vigor. It appears that two giant technological corporations are ready to set their agendas to the test of battle, and this conflict may indeed have a profound impact on the technological industry’s further evolution and the provided services’ users.
